In countless legends, Japanese ninjas are presented as such invincible warriors, because they know the secrets of combat magic. Meanwhile, Russia had its own super warriors, in many ways superior to the ninja.
They were called wolf lags. Initially, this was the name given to members of the mysterious caste of priests and sorcerers among the ancient Slavs, who supposedly knew how to turn into wolves and "dalaks". In the language of the ancient Prussians, this word meant "bear". These priests also trained werewolf warriors who knew no equal in military affairs.
SPECIAL FORCES OF MACEDONSKY
According to legend, in the XII century BC. e. under the name of the Janis, such super warriors lived in the Don, Kuban and Dniester. And much earlier, their detachments on 30 boats went to the aid of the legendary Troy, and in the IV century BC. e. fought in the troops of Alexander the great against the last Persian king Darius.
Legends say that the Dzhanians played an important role in the battles of Granicus, Issus and Gaugamela. When the huge Persian army went on the offensive against the Macedonian phalanxes, five of these super warriors cut through the dense columns of the Persians, turned their horses, cut back and disappeared into the steppe. Such daring, swift attacks brought fear and confusion to Darius's army. His experienced commanders were often lost, unable to understand what was happening or to resist the elusive enemy.
During the lull between battles, the Persians were constantly exposed to unexpected raids by Slavic invisible warriors and werewolves. Unnoticed by anyone, they kidnapped sentries and even military leaders directly from their tents and disappeared without a trace in an open field. Often, the Dzhanians thwarted the surprise attacks of the Persian cavalry on the bivouac troops of Alexander the Great. When, during the campaigns, his army stopped to rest, it was to them that the renowned commander trusted to carry, as they would say now, combat outposts.
The Janis, who were well-versed in the terrain, determined the starting positions where the cavalry of Darius could deploy to attack, and disguised themselves there, burrowing into deep cells. When the Persians lined up for attack, the Slavic warriors quietly left their caches and, bending over, ran under the bellies of the horses. On their backs, they held the razor-sharp axes with their blades up. Behind the "saboteurs" the horses fell to the ground, and the riders could not understand what happened to them.
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There is a legend that during the campaigns of Alexander the Great to Asia, some of the Slavic soldiers remained there. It was they who became the ancestors of the eastern martial arts, having taught the selected Aboriginal priests to use healthy in battle - the internal energy of a person, known in the East as qi.
PRINCE-WOLF
In their homeland, the ancient martial art, although the initiates kept it in the strictest secrecy, continued perfect magical techniques that allowed not only to see the enemy at a great distance, but also to penetrate into his plans. In battle, the Dzhanians were able to create astral doubles that misled opponents, forcing them to fight them uselessly. The very same super warriors - they began to be called wolfodlers - struck enemies, striking blows with "glow", that is, with powerful energy messages.
The ancient Slavic pagan god Veles, who allegedly endowed them with magical powers, was considered the patron saint of wolkodlaks. Its main sacred animal was the bear - hence the second part of the name of the super warriors.
At a later time, the most famous of the wolkodlaks was the Kiev prince Svyatoslav the Great, the son of Prince Igor, who was killed by the Drevlyans in 945 during the collection of tribute. Svyatoslav believed that this happened only because his father was dismissive of the magical art of wolkodlaks. He himself made every effort to master him. All his life, Prince Svyatoslav spent in campaigns and battles, in which he always remained invulnerable, although he fought in the forefront.
Contemporaries describe him as a person of average height, who did not stand out in any way at ordinary times. In battle, he was transformed beyond recognition. According to the chronicler, the eyes of Prince Svyatoslav Khorob “threw lightning, which struck enemies. And their arrows and swords did not take him, and no one could defeat this glorious warrior in single combat”. In his lifetime, Prince Svyatoslav saw a lot of battles: he fought with the Khazars and Polovtsy, went campaigns to the Caucasus and the Balkans, fought with the Byzantines. And always, according to the chronicler, “before the battle he said to his soldiers:“I will go ahead of you. If my head falls, take care of your own. " Yes, only military magic, better than steel damask, defended the prince, and he walked, fighting and smashing hailstones."
COSSACK SPAS
After the baptism of Russia in 988, the ancient martial art of wolfodlaks lost its former glory, since they began to be identified with the malefic nocturnal werewolves. However, the super warriors themselves did not disappear and continued to live in the southern steppes at the source of the Don, Kuban and Dnieper. Later, they were joined by peasants who fled from the oppression of the landowners, and in the 16th century also the inhabitants of Novgorod the Great, ruined by Ivan the Terrible.
So in the Black Sea region a subethnos arose - the Cossacks, who spoke one of the southern dialects of the Russian language.
For the history of the ancient Slavic martial art, it is important that the Novgorodians were very sophisticated in "witchcraft" knowledge and knew how to use them in fights. In particular, they had combat systems "Kulak Perun", "Buza", "Skobar", which were not inferior to Volkodlak. When the carriers of different styles of secret combat magic came together, they did not enter into confrontation, but created a new common art of combat, survival and healing - "Cossack Spas". Those who owned it began to be called Spassovtsy, or kharaterniks.
Quite a lot is known nowadays about what was included in this art. Let's start with the most controversial, causing the greatest doubts - with the ability to turn into wolves, bears and other animals. To do this, it was allegedly necessary to somersault through an oak log and utter a witchcraft conspiracy. By the way, from the description of this rite in the Russian language, the expression “to do everything through a stump-deck” appeared, that is, in a strange, unusual way.
In fact, neither the wolf lags nor the characterists were literally werewolves. We are talking about mass hypnosis, when the warrior magicians "threw themselves over": they inspired opponents that instead of a man they see a wolf or a bear. Or, on the contrary, they "turned" into themselves enemy soldiers. And among the Zaporozhye Cossacks-kharaterniks there was, for example, a certain Fesko, who "grew" several heads for himself at once, so that those who were nearby could not understand which one was real. For other super warriors, the same thing happened with arms, which had sabers and checkers, and the opponent did not know from which to expect a blow. Close to this is the ability to create your own astral or phantom counterparts and make you fight in vain with "empty space". Characterists called all these various techniques the ability to "send a dream."
As for their invulnerability to arrows, bullets and swords, this was due to the ability to quickly introduce themselves into a special state, when the course of their own time was accelerated many times over. The harakterniks determined that such a state had come by the fact that the back of their head was cold. This made it possible to see the actions of the enemy in slow motion and easily evade the blows of swords and arrows flying at them, and subsequently even bullets. However, it is possible that with the help of sane, that is, internal energy, they could surround themselves with an invisible powerful shell, which really deflected arrows and bullets to the side. Moreover, in order to “recharge with magical power,” the kharaterniks slept under the hanging branches of century-old oaks.
With the help of special exercises, they also developed the ability of clairvoyance, which they called the ability to "look into a mirror a thousand miles away."
HEALING POWER
In all centuries, the art of healing was very important for the Slavic superfighters. When they "replaced" people, in a matter of hours, at most days, the severe wounds received in battle were closed. Moreover, according to legend, they could even revive the dead.
In any case, the enemies never found dead super warriors on the battlefield. The Spassovtsy-kharacterniks never got sick with ordinary diseases. The healing power, which they were able to perceive from the outside and accumulate in their bodies, helped. For example, a naked warrior sat down in the snow and opened an energy channel in himself through which this force flowed. After a short time, his body became so hot that the snow melted around.
MODERN WONDERS
In the 19th century, one of the most famous Cossack characterists was the hero of the Caucasian War, General Baklanov. According to eyewitnesses, not a single Chechen shooter could have hit him, even a motionless one. The highlanders were so impressed by his magical gift, which they considered divine, that they even boasted to each other that it was Baklyu, as he was called in the Caucasus, who defeated one of them.
According to some reports, during the Civil War, there were also kharacters among the Cossacks who successfully fought the Reds. One of them was considered the White Guard Colonel Vasishchev. In 1920, with 54 Cossacks, he allegedly captured an entire corps of the Red Army, after which he disarmed all its soldiers and released them. Those who witnessed this later told how, on a crowded parade ground of the liberated village of Naurskaya, Colonel Vasishchev jumped off his horse, unfastened his belt and shook out the bullets from under his tunic, which fell in peas at his feet. However, skeptics say that he simply staged an impressive performance, hiding in advance in his bosom the bullets taken from the cartridges.
Oleg SHILOVSKY